Judith Abegley
Arlington,Texas
Summary
Certified Scrum Master and servant leader for Agile development teams, with nine plus years of experience driving Agile transformations and leading teams in software development projects/programs (Financial Services, Insurance, Data Analytics and Healthcare services) in Agile Product Management, team coaching, and facilitating project delivery within budget and timeline constraints. Proficient in Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe. Experienced in using Agile project tracking tools and fostering collaborative environments. Effective communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Transformation Lead
Sr. Scrum Master
Lockheed Martin
07.2022 - Current
- Facilitate and lead core Agile Events: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Demo, Retrospective, and Backlog refinement) in a SAFe environment
- Agile Release Train (ART) sync meetings, ensuring full team engagement and managing interdependencies for assigned teams
- Coaching teams on scrum and Agile practices and methodologies to drive continuous improvement, transparency, inspection, and adaption
- Collaborated with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning and maintain a healthy work backlog prepared for execution
- Conducted demand and capacity planning models, tracking deliverables, and maintaining IT forecasting roadmap in partnership with Product owner and stakeholders
- Managed scope, budget, timeline, quality, and deliverables to support business goals
- Created an open, non-judgmental, and trustworthy team environment emphasizing problem-solving
- Assessed team maturity and coached the team to higher levels of maturity at a sustainable pace
- Reported on team progress each sprint through defined metrics and ensured team focus on highest business value in collaboration with product manager/owner and business stakeholders
- Acted as liaison between clients and delivery teams, ensuring project success and enabling teams to deliver excellence
- Participated in project estimation sessions with technical and business stakeholders
- Collaborate with product owners, business representatives, and developers to craft User Stories adhering to the INVEST model
- Utilize Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Jira Align, Agile Hive, Rally, Mural, Miro, and Microsoft Suite (MS Project, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, MS Word) for software development tracking and team communication
- Coach business leadership and management teams on Agile principles, practices, and tools
- Coordinate PI Planning Releases and manage dependencies, risks, and opportunities with Release Train engineers (RTE) and other Scrum Masters
- Proactively identify and mitigate impediments to team agility, ensuring challenges do not become blockers
- Implement action items from retrospectives to enhance team performance
- Advocate for continuous integration and pair programming to foster knowledge sharing and code quality.
Scrum Master
USAA
01.2022 - 07.2022
- Facilitated the formation, learning, and growth of cross-functional delivery teams toward a Lean and Agile mindset
- Led multiple high-performing Scrum teams through Agile Transformation process
- Managed and facilitated Agile ceremonies and executed Program Increment in a SAFe Scrum environment
- Identified and addressed dependencies and impediments, implementing mitigation plans as necessary
- Established transparent communication channels among team members, product owners, and stakeholders
- Generated metric reports on project status, velocity, burn-up chart, cycle time, and lead time
- Led collaboration sessions with internal clients on complex projects, fostering innovative solutions
- Fostered a trusting environment where team members feel comfortable raising issues and solving problems collaboratively.
Scrum Master/Agile Transformation Agent
AMN Healthcare
11.2018 - 01.2022
- Organize and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
- Ensure that all team members actively participate in these events and that they are conducted effectively and efficiently
- Removing Obstacles, Identify and address any impediments or obstacles that are hindering the team's progress
- Work with stakeholders to resolve issues that are beyond the team's control
- Supporting and assisting the Product Owner in refining the Product Backlog, prioritizing user stories, and defining acceptance criteria
- Coach Product Owner in maximizing the value delivered by the team
- Coach team members on Agile principles, practices, and values
- Coached software development teams in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodologies
- Encourage self-organization and cross-functionality within the team
- Mentor the team on Scrum best practices and help them continuously improve their processes
- Foster a collaborative environment where team members feel empowered to voice their opinions and ideas
- Encourage communication and collaboration among team members, stakeholders, and other Scrum Masters
- Track key Agile metrics such as velocity, burndown charts, and sprint progress
- Provided Agile-focused training to stakeholders and team members
- Drive continuous improvement by overcoming challenges and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Scrum Master/Agile
Noah’s Ark Healthcare Inc
11.2015 - 01.2018
- Utilized Jira for planning, tracking monitoring, reporting, and confluence for collaboration and documentation
- Organized, facilitated, and guided scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinement to enhance incremental delivery of value to customers
- Assisted the team in preparing for ART activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and releases, giving it alignment, and helping it manage risk by providing program-level cadence and synchronization
- Driving continuous improvement as a change agent, engaging stakeholders to identify business problems, and creating solutions that support the adoption of agile methodology while driving productivity throughout the SDLC
- Supporting and assisting the Product Owner in refining the Product Backlog, prioritizing user stories, and defining acceptance criteria
- Coach Product Owner in maximizing the value delivered by the team
- Coached team members on the daily application of agile practices, and principles and provided guidance on correcting anti-patterns and resolving instances of impediments and blockers
- Guided development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Coached software development teams in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodologies
- Encouraged self-organization and cross-functionality within the team
- Mentored the team on Scrum best practices and helped them continuously improve their processes
- Fostered a collaborative environment where team members felt empowered to voice their opinions and ideas
- Encouraged communication and collaboration among team members, stakeholders, and other Scrum Masters
- Tracked key Agile metrics such as velocity, burndown charts, and sprint progress
- Provided Agile-focused training to stakeholders and team members
- Drove continuous improvement by overcoming challenges and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Program Manager / Nurse Administrator (RN)
Ropheka Home health Inc
06.2012 - 11.2015
- Develop, implement, and oversee healthcare programs and initiatives to meet organizational objectives
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to design and execute program strategies, ensuring alignment with patient care standards and regulatory requirements
- Monitor program performance, evaluate outcomes, and implement continuous improvement initiatives
- Provide clinical leadership and guidance to nursing staff, ensuring adherence to evidence-based practices and standards of care
- Participate in patient care activities as needed, including patient assessments, care planning, and clinical interventions
- Serve as a resource and mentor to nursing staff, fostering professional development, and promoting a culture of excellence in patient care
- Recruit, onboard, and supervise nursing staff, providing direction, support, and performance feedback
- Develop and implement staff training programs to enhance clinical competencies
- Promote best practices and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment that promotes teamwork, communication, and mutual respect among staff members
- Manage day-to-day operations of healthcare facilities, including staffing, scheduling, resource allocation, and budget management
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) related to patient care, operational efficiency, and financial performance
- Identify areas for process improvement and implement initiatives to optimize workflow, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs
- Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations, accreditation standards, and organizational policies and procedures
- Implement quality assurance programs to monitor and evaluate patient care outcomes, infection control practices, and medication management processes
- Lead quality improvement initiatives to address identified gaps, enhance patient safety, and promote a culture of continuous quality improvement.
Education
Nursing diploma (RN) -
Mass Bay Community College
01.2005
master’s in environmental management -
École Normale Supérieure de Yaoundé
01.1997
BS in Environmental Management -
Yaoundé University 1 Cameroon
01.1994
Skills
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and frameworks (Scrum and Kanban) Facilitating day-to-day project events Agile ceremonies; Daily Stand-up, sprint planning, Retrospective and Backlog refinement
- Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills Providing subject matter expertise to team members and stakeholders on complex projects
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Identifying and managing risks, opportunity and dependencies and responsible for managing impediments to an outcome
- Good understanding of multiple SDLC methodologies, Waterfall/Agile hybrid methods
- Experience managing multiple teams simultaneously environment, onsite and remote team members
- Coordinate sprints, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups
- Schedule and facilitate PI Planning and all Scrum events
- Assist in building a productive environment where knowledge workers take ownership of the product and enjoy working on it
- Protect the team from conflicts, obstacles, distractions, and disruptions
- Ability to transform teams from waterfall to high performing Agile teams
- Work to foster a good relationship between product owner and engineering teams
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution Working with dynamics across functional teams’ enabling teams to implement changes effectively
- Coach team in writing User-Stories/gathering Requirements Documentation User Stories that meet the INVEST, SMART models
- Proven ability to develop creative and collaborative approaches Coaching team members on agile Principles
- Team motivation
- Adaptive Decision Making
- Customer Focus
- Project Scoping
- Feedback Delivery
- Servant Leadership
- Workflow Analysis
- Agile Best Practices
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
- SAFe Certified SSM (Version 6.0)
- SAFe 6.0 SA
- SAFe 6.0 SPC
- RN Nurse
- MS
Toolstechnicalsummary
- Jira
- Rally
- Service Now
- VersionOne
- SharePoint
- Azure Devops
- Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Slack
- Teams
- Confluence
- Agile Hive
- Axxess
References
Available Upon Request
Timeline
Sr. Scrum Master
Lockheed Martin
07.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
USAA
01.2022 - 07.2022
Scrum Master/Agile Transformation Agent
AMN Healthcare
11.2018 - 01.2022
Scrum Master/Agile
Noah’s Ark Healthcare Inc
11.2015 - 01.2018
Program Manager / Nurse Administrator (RN)
Ropheka Home health Inc
06.2012 - 11.2015
Agile Transformation Lead
Nursing diploma (RN) -
Mass Bay Community College
master’s in environmental management -
École Normale Supérieure de Yaoundé
BS in Environmental Management -
Yaoundé University 1 Cameroon